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Hermes Transport Logistics targets Europe with road, air, ocean products

Posted by | Sep 24, 2008 | |

Hermes Logistics is expanding its freight transport business by re-branding it to target the European market and offering a broader product range, including road, air and ocean freight transportation.

The unit will be re-branded from Hermes Transportlogistik to Hermes Transport Logistics (HTL) during 2009, and will expand its road transportation fleet of swapbodies by adding up to 2,500 semi-trailers for international FTL services in Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Austria and the Benelux countries, the company announced.

Moreover, HTL will integrate Otto International Logistics, the freight forwarding business of parent company Otto Group, and will thus be able to offer air and ocean freight services to its customers as of March 2009. The HTL air and ocean business will be managed by Eckhardt Fechtner, currently in the same role for Otto International Logistics.

HTL will initially take over the international freight volumes of the Otto Group and other existing customers with trade flows from Asia. The company is already in discussions with major customers about combining transport flows for distribution through its network.

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TNT strengthens international express network

Posted by | Sep 24, 2008 | |

TNT announced that it will add eight new branches to its international express network in China by the end of the year. The expansion, which forms part of TNT’s investment in China to strengthen its international express network, will bring the total number of TNT International Express branches in China to 34. In addition to its extensive international express network, TNT, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Tiandi-Hoau, also operates China’s largest private domestic road network, which consists of 1,250 depots.
The TNT International Express branches at Dongguan and Zhongshan will begin their operations in the end of September 2008. This follows the opening of two earlier branches in Foshan, which opened on 1 August 2008 and in Shunde, which started operations on 1 September 2008. In addition, another four TNT International Express branches will be set up in Nanning, Wenzhou, Kunshan and Shanghai Pudong by the end of the year.

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FedEx announces increase in daily capacity between Vietnam and global markets

Posted by | Sep 24, 2008 | |

FedEx Express announced it had launched a new Airbus A310 flight service to Vietnam to meet the country’s increasing demand for reliable time-definite express services. The new service increases FedEx capacity into and out of the country fivefold, to more than 30,000kg a day.

As a result of the new service, customers also enjoy an improvement in transit times into and out of the capital, Hanoi. Customer cut-off and transit times out of Ho Chi Minh City are unchanged.

Since FedEx first established operations in Vietnam in 1994, the company has worked to support the country’s efforts to become a key export market.

The upgraded Vietnam service also strengthens FedEx AsiaOne Network, which connects 19 key Asia cities with more than 400 intra-Asia flights each week. The network is interconnected with FedEx global network – covering North and South America, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

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Trans-o-flex opens sorting centre in Austria

Posted by | Sep 24, 2008 | |

trans-o-flex announced the opening of its fourth sorting centre in Austria to broaden its network for temperature-controlled distribution services.

The new sorting centre near Graz is being operated by Scherübl, a subsidiary of the trans-o-flex unit ThermoMed, and is its fourth depot in Austria, thus completing its national distribution network.

Scherübl, which specialises in transporting temperature-controlled shipments for the pharmaceutical and health industries, can now offer next-day delivery across Austria. The connection with the network of ThermoMed enables it to provide temperature-controlled transports to and from Germany.

The building was constructed within 14 weeks and is located in Karlsdorf (Styria), Austria, near Graz airport, where Scherübl can share the outside truck waiting area with a neighbouring postal centre. It lies conveniently at the motorway junction of A2 and A9.

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DHL: business slowing in China

Posted by | Sep 24, 2008 | |

The rate of growth in DHL China has decreased by 15 pct the first seven months of the current year. The average growth rate a year earlier was 20 pct. “The company achieved an annual growth rate of 20-23 pct in the past five years,” reported Dan McHugh, DHL’s Managing Director for the Asia-Pacific region, in an article published in the Chinese periodical “Logistics Week.” The decline is said to be due to weakening demand in Europe and the USA for exports from China.

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